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What Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Teaching Us About Human Consciousness

By Iris Kulbatski — 2020

Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are being tested to treat mental illness. They're also expanding our understanding about human consciousness.

Read on www.discovermagazine.com

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Microglia: A New Target in the Brain for Depression, Alzheimer’s, and More?

As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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The Tiny Brain Cells that Connect Our Mental and Physical Health

A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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Rapid Antidepressant Effects of the Psychedelic Ayahuasca Linked to Changes in Inflammatory Biomarkers

The antidepressant effects of the psychedelic brew known as ayahuasca appear to be related to anti-inflammatory activity, according to new research from scientists in Brazil.

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Eric W. Dolan
2021
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